I am doing a research project for my physics class on proton therapy. In the project, we must identify an unanswered question of the topic and explain it. I have discovered that an unanswered question regarding PT is its RBE. It is somewhere in between .7-1.6 and the general accepted value is 1.1 but no one knows the actual value. Can anyone explain to me like I am a five year old what RBE is?
Today I CELEBRATE 5 years of freedom. It feels like yesterday, and almost like a movie scene. The living room was covered in a lot of red, which felt a poetic color to describe the anger and hate that was in that room. I don't know why I chose that date; maybe it was symbolic of being a day that was supposed to be spent with loved ones and I never felt that way about it.
Whatever the reason, I remember being in slow motion. My bio father would always say I moved too fast, and I think that's because I was anxious and knew I didn't want to be there. But that night I was slower than a slug, fully taking in the choice that I had internally made.
I looked at them one by one, hoping for a ribbon of Hope for someone to love or maybe to keep me there. Yet there was nothing. My psychotic and bipolar sister, my emotionally abusive narcissistic bio father, my psycho Hitler level angry grandmother and many others. My uncle was the only one who was kind of normal, and I do miss him. And the dog was awesome. Yet it was not enough to make me change my mind.
I said goodbye to all of them, waived and walked outside. I can still feel the cool winter air and how nice it was to see my car outside that I had bought and was mine. Driving down away from that street was like being in a spaceship taking me to a different planet.
It was only five years ago but it seems like twenty lifetimes ago. My life has improved so much and there's so many beautiful things that I have now in this year to celebrate, and Christmas Is Almost formulating into something I look forward to. Thank you for being here for me all these community members and helping me get to this point. Change is difficult, painful, yet possible and beautiful
For background, I discovered someone who is likely my mom's biological relative based on cross-referencing family trees with DNA matches. I have a 303cM match to a woman whose grandmother had 5 sisters. And I have a 267cM match to a man whose grandfather had 4 siblings. One of the aunts from the 303cM match married one of the uncles from the 267cM match. This leads me to believe one of that couple's children is my biological grandparent - this would make the two DNA matches first cousins to one of my grandparents.
I found the names of the children from the couple in an obituary, and found one of them is (apparently) still alive. I also found an address for this individual. For what it's worth, this person is about 82 years old.
Below is a letter I am composing to this person. Please offer any feedback you might have. Since the individual is still living, the bold italics indicate where potentially identifying information has been masked.
>Dear Person
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>My name is Me. I am writing to you because I have discovered we may be related while doing family history research.
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>My mother was adopted at birth from Mason City Iowa. She was born on birthdate. Unfortunately, she never knew anything about her biological parents before she passed away. My goal has been to see if I could uncover who her biological are, and possibly connect with family I never knew I had.
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>Using the DNA features from Ancestry.com, and several similar services, I was able to establish that one of my mother’s parents was related to one of the children of grandfather and grandmother, and grandfather and grandmother. The common connection was father and mother, who I believe were your parents.
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>I found the name of you and your siblings when I found an obituary for father in the Sacramento Bee. Your address came up when I searched for your name.
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>My mom was raised as a ‘military brat’. My grandfather was a Colonel in the Air Force and they moved around the country quite a bit before eventually settling in city after he retired. My sister and I were born and raised in city.
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>I am hopeful you will have some information which will help me solve this family mystery. If it does turn out we are related, I would love to learn more about you and your family to get a better sense of where I come from.
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>Thank you for your time and I look fo
Covid-19 despite having a low mortality rate and primarily affecting persons who are no longer drivers of national economies nor of military importance was still able to bring international economies to a halt and impacted National Defense on a massive scale.
This demonstrated the massive practicality that biological weapons can have.
Think about the effects this virus had now imagine a virus with similar attributes except with a 10% - 15% mortality rate across the general population if not higher. Such a weapon could absolutely devastate a nation's ability to wage war effectively or even at all. Additionally such weapons have the potential to have much cheaper R&D costs and procurement costs in comparison to a Nuclear Weapon thus making them perhaps more procurable to smaller nations and economies.
On a second note an untraceable biological weapon attack has the potential to halt or delay a conflict before it even occurs.
For example Russia's buildup on Ukraine's border, if a deadly untraceable virus were to have an outbreak in Moscow causing massive panic, supplies shortages, and troop refocusing would Russia even be able to launch and maintain a campaign against Ukraine?
Thoughts and discussion on the topic is appreciated.
The literal only example I can think of, off the top of my head, is Aro and Didyme. Alec and Jane don't count as they were both transformed by someone else.
Last year, I found my cousins from both of my biological parents' sides through 23ANDME and ANCESTRYDNA tests.
Right away, they seemed happy and wanted to see me as soon as COVID was done. However, the enthusiasm seemed to die down once they realized I was being very proactive in my reunification, even getting my bio mom's death certificate and visiting the addresses where she lived when I was born and when she died. (I didn't approach the homes. I stayed on the sidewalks.)
Now, that COVID levels have gone down and many are vaccinated here in CA, I have asked the cousins who live closest to me to meet them. But, they say they're "too busy" now. I've offered a central location to meet. I'm open to work around their schedules. But, I keep getting excuses. Yet, on their Facebook and other social media accounts, I see them doing lots of leisurely stuff, incl. going to places further away than where I am or have agreed to meet them.
Should I just give up and let them be? I feel like they're now wishing they had never done the DNA tests themselves. If they hadn't, I would've never found them.
(Based on info from my cousins, I will not try to reach out to my bio dad at all.)
This information is extremely simplified. It doesn't account for how difficult it may be to reach Ancestral Bond or class ascendancies, such as +1 totem or % More per totem from Heiro. Nor does it account for how the totem playstyle feels to some players. Also note that some supports simply do not work with totems.
The following is assuming level 20 supports, numbers included for reference. The last column is the number of totems you need to have in order for the totem support to be at least a generic 35% more.
| Totem Support name | % speed | % damage | % of player damage per | count | Total | # to hit 35 % More |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spell | 60 | 76 | 45.6 | 4 | 182.4 | 2.96 |
| Ballista(+2 totems) | 50 | 76 | 38 | 6 | 228 | 3.55 |
| Earthbreaker | 70 | 100 | 70 | 2 | 140 | 1.93 |
A takeaway from here is that Earthbreaker looks good as a primary skill and it might be worth going 1h with a +1 totem shield as the per totem strength is good.
Multiple Totem Support relative strength
| Base totems | % More |
|---|---|
| 1 | 137.0 |
| 2 | 58.0 |
| 3 | 31.7 |
| 4 | 18.5 |
| 5 | 10.6 |
| 6 | 5.3 |
| 7 | 1.6 |
| 8 | -1.3 |
An important caveat here is that if you use Multiple Support Totem on your slam link, you lose non-Vaal Ancestral Totems. As a personal preference I'd clear with Multiple Totems in the main link for Earthbreaker and then swap it out for Melee Phys(or suchlike) on bosses to enable 3 and 3 link Ancestral Totems, 20% more attack speed + 2 Ancestral Protectors should be better for bursting bosses.
I'm posting this here because I did post it on a different sub and lots of Redditors were confused by my writing ( mobile, autotype).
I was adviced to break it down and post on different subs. So here I go. Background: My Fiancee grew up with her mother and stepfather. Her bio dad "went out for cigarettes" when my SOs mom was six months pregnant. He ghosted her, so she had to move back to her own city because of her bad pregnancy symptoms and he left her to fend for herself. She went back and moved in with her parents.
Bio FIL is a user. He married my soon to be MIL because he was on an MBA program and she was paying for all living expenses so that he could focus on his post graduate. She says she found out he was getting an allowance from his father. Then, he dumped her for his mistress who sounded fancy at the moment because she was on a PhD program, and that turned out to be a lie. The mistress bore him kids, and he basically erased his relationship with first wife by telling his parents that it didn't work out and they had a quick divorce. For clarity, my MIL says she didn't have a relationship with his parents because they eloped and his parents were pissed.
For years, my SOs grandma thought her only grandkids were his kids with the mistress. When FILs mom found out, she immediately asked to meet her eldest Grandkid. My Fiancee says he would suddenly pop into her life and then disappear for years in a row. The grandmother worked to offer her a place as a family member and wanted to pay child support but my MIL refused because she got embarrassed and didn't want problems with my bio FIL. So she basically worked to give my SO the best she could as a single mother until she remarried ( SO was still a kid). Grandma in law was very present and involved and did pay for things (eventually). She also did her best to protect SO when she noticed he was emotionally abusive.
FIL always claimed to be broke, but I don't know how this is even possible for a man who had a good career, and that part is true. I'm not saying he was a star in his industry but he did have a good career because his bragging stories are verifiable. So in his old age (now) he brags about his success but forgets that he was a deadbeat father.
SO was very present when her grandmothers health was declining. She showed up every weekend and also during the week. So, when she died, SO offered a very touching eulogy and people reacted with a standing ovation to honor her grandmother's c
... keep reading on reddit ➡This man served in the RAF on a barrage balloon unit during WWII. He was born and raised in Wakefield, Yorkshire in 1915. After the war he moved to London. He died in Chippenham, Wiltshire in 2000. He went by his middle name Leslie. I know it's a huge longshot but if someone knew him or knows any living relatives of his it would make my whole year. Thanks!
Important note: My step dad was abusive and my relatives used to tell me to "get over his behavior" growing up because he was my "father" and "my blood". I was told the cliche line "blood is thicker than water" multiple times from my mom and extended family as a reminder that I shouldn't cut my abusive step father out of my life because of our "blood relations", despite the fact they all knew we weren't related.
(sorry if i tagged it wrong, i’m new to adoption things) So my grandma was adopted back in 1968, in a completely different state than where she lived for a majority of her life. I was wondering if there was any way to find out who her parents, or possible siblings/cousins are?
